Co-presented by the American Cinematheque and the Art Deco Society Los Angeles

Join Los Angeles historian Marc Chevalier for an illustrated "living history" presentation on "the Corner", the social nexus of Hollywood's movie industry throughout its golden age. Gone today and practically forgotten, the Corner's heart was the Sunset Medical Building, a marbled 1931 'chateau' on Sunset Boulevard that stretched from Laurel Avenue to Crescent Height Boulevard, next to the popular celebrity hideaway, The Garden of Allah.

A wild cast of characters and incidents fill the Corner's history to the brim. Meet America's notorious "international adventuress and love pirate"; visit a grocery market that was a perpetual movie star party (Robert Mitchum played stockboy there for fun); and step inside a unique little pharmacy that grew to be a Tinseltown legend: Schwab's.

At the Corner, Howard Hughes treated his girlfriends to makeovers by a Jane Russell lookalike; writer F. Scott Fitzgerald nearly died on its sidewalk, and mobster Mickey Cohen's pummeled employees behind its doors. It's the greatest place you've never heard of. Plus, a screening of Billy Wilder's SUNSET BOULEVARD which famously used the Corner (and especially Schwab's) as a scene location!

Plus, a screening of an 11 min. short "Screen Snapshots: The Skolsky Party" (1946) featuring a star-studded holiday presentation inside Schwab's Pharmacy hosted by Hollywood Reporter Sidney Skolsky who practically lived at Schwab's! Billy Wilder's SUNSET BOULEVARD which famously used the Corner (and especially Schwab's) as a scene location! Are you ready for your close-up?